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A Meissen figure group of 'The Hand Kiss', circa 1740 | Figurengruppe 'Der Handkuss', Meissen, circa 1740
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October 18, 02:16 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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A Meissen figure group of 'The Hand Kiss', circa 1740 | Figurengruppe 'Der Handkuss', Meissen, circa 1740
modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, as a cavalier kissing the left hand of a shepherdess in front of a tree, his companion holding a crook in her right hand, the mound base with three recumbent sheep and a seated dog, applied with leaves and flowers, traces crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Height 9 5/8 in.
24.5 cm high
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Figurengruppe 'Der Handkuss', Meissen, circa 1740
Kändler's Taxa or work records between 1st April and the end of July 1738 note:
'nebst einem Gesellen', mentions 'Ein sauber angekleideter Schäfer mit deßen Campagnionin, welche er bey der Hand führet und selbige Baum mit 2. ausgearbeiteten Schäfgen und einem Hund', cited by Ingelore Menzhausen and Järgen Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert: Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kändlers in Meissen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss, Basel 1993, pp. 156-57.
Examples of this model were included in the renowned pre-war European porcelain Collections of Fritz Burckhardt, sold, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Munich, December 8, 1925, no. 81; Siegfried Salz, Berlin, sold, Cassirer and Helbing, Munich, March 23-27, 1929, no. 88; Emma Budge, Hamburg, sold, Paul Graupe, Berlin, September 27-29, 1937, lot 790; and Walter von Pannwitz, Munich, which subsequently entered the Collection of Jörg Nelte and was sold at Sotheby's London, June 17, 1997, lot 114.
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